Mark Steyn distills Obama Care to its natural absurdity
Bookworm on Aug 22 2009 at 7:59 am | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics
Here’s Mark Steyn on Obama’s “brilliant” plan and American fear:
It’s a good thing he’s the smartest president of all time and the greatest orator since Socrates because otherwise one might easily confuse him with some birdbrained Bush type. But, if we take him at his word, then a trillion-dollar public expenditure that “controls costs” presumably means he’s planning on reducing private health expenditure — such as, say, your insurance plan — by at least a trillion. Or he’ll be raising a trillion dollars’ worth of revenue. Either way, under Obama nothing is certain but death panels and taxes — i.e., a vast enervating statism, and the confiscation of the fruits of your labors required to pay for it.
That’s why the “stimulus” flopped. It didn’t just fail to stimulate, it actively deterred stimulation, because it was the first explicit signal to America and the world that the Democrats’ political priorities overrode everything else. If you’re a business owner, why take on extra employees when cap’n’trade is promising increased regulatory costs and health “reform” wants to stick you with an 8 percent tax for not having a company insurance plan? Obama’s leviathan sends a consistent message to business and consumers alike: When he’s spending this crazy, maybe the smart thing for you to do is hunker down until the dust’s settled and you get a better sense of just how broke he’s going to make you. For this level of “community organization,” there aren’t enough of “the rich” to pay for it. That leaves you.
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Sent another email to my two Dimocrat Senators today referencing the $9 trillion deficit figure.
I know it won’t make a difference. But, it gives me a momentary sense that they are actually representing me and I might have some input. I am beginning to wonder, however, if that momentary lift is worth the angst, no rage, I feel when I receive their nonsensical responses.
That Steyn article is great, and this is the winning line:
> When he’s spending this crazy, maybe the smart thing for you to do is hunker down until the dust’s settled and you get a better sense of just how broke he’s going to make you. For this level of “community organization,” there aren’t enough of “the rich” to pay for it. That leaves you.
And I ran across this on American Thinker:
> My guess is that Barack Obama’s college transcripts show a “D-” in Economics and a “Withdrawal” in Western Civilization.
Well, if it was a class in Keynesian economics, Barack would have done just fine. A class in the Austrian school… not so fine.
Obama seems to think he can shove *anything* down Americans’ throats, and they’ll accept it just fine. Actually, since the leadership of the Democrat party in Congress is so far-left as well, they *all* think they can. I was just about to say that Obama, being the first “international president”, understands Europe (weak-kneed, cowardly, Statist Europe) far more than he understands most of America. He just doesn’t understand most Americans. But then I realized, Democrat leadership doesn’t understand either.
So it’s actually quite simple: Enamored of the chance to finally enact their entire Statist, leftist set of programs, they are incapable of stopping, no matter what the American people say. Like totally spoiled children in a candy store, they’re rushing from bin to bin, grabbing at the sweets and shoving them all into their greedy maws, mumbling “More! More! More!” through the massive confectionary goo they chew on.
It is looking more and more possible that Election Day, November 2010 might be a stunning day of reckoning, due to their astonishing overreach. Republicans would have done little to deserve any benefits of that day; the Democrats would simply have squandered all their political capital with Middle America in this mad, insane rush.
One can hope.